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Vieuxtemps/Lalo Violin Concertos

Vieuxtemps’s Fifth Violin Concerto opens disarmingly, but the tutti gathers strength in Dutoit’s hands before Chang steals in silkily (at...

Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 5/1996

Rossini Barbiere di Siviglia

As Figaro, Gobbi revels - almost too ebulliently - in the plenitude of his youthful powers, always a lively presence....

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 1/2000

Schumann Lieder

Here is another important issue to confirm Peter Schreier as king among Lieder interpreters today. It seems that he is...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1991

Leoncavallo I Pagliacci; Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana

The verismo twins were conceived not quite simultaneously, the first (Mascagni's half) occurring just about 100 years ago, at the...

Reviewed in issue 1/1989

Angelika Kirchschlager

Few Lieder singers match Angelika Kirchschlager in vibrant stage personality. Even heard “blind”, the Austrian mezzo vividly illuminates each of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 2/2011

French Works for Two Pianos

The Concerto for two pianos begins here with tremendous attack, reminding me more than usual of the Balinese gamelan which...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 8/1991

Antonio Guarnieri - a Portrait

Antonio Guarnieri (1880-1952) may now be a forgotten figure but in his day he was a much-respected conductor—at least in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 6/1990

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3

The latest instalment in what promises to be a complete cycle of Mozart's sonatas for keyboard and violin contains one...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/1990

Beethoven Fidelio

Never one merely to revisit what he has done before with a repertory piece, Colin Davis's work with Fidelio is...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 3/2007

Beethoven String Quartet No 13; Grosse Fuge

The relatively youthful, Cologne-based Auryn Quartet approach late Beethoven in a briskly incisive if somewhat impetuous frame of mind, their...

Reviewed by mquinn in issue: 4/1998

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